Schramsberg J. Schram Blancs

J. Schram Blancs is a Chardonnay-based sparkling wine from Schramsberg, first released as J. Schram with the 1987 vintage and renamed with the 2013. It is dedicated to the founder, Jacob Schram, and makes up only 2-3% of the winery's annual production. The blend is assembled from the best base wines, fermented in both oak barrels and stainless steel, with some small batches going through malolactic fermentation in barrel. It spends eight years on the yeast in the Diamond Mountain caves, is riddled by hand and finished with a brut dosage.